Trust in resistant forms looking for reliable spaces. A project for a school and an urban piazza in Palermo

Architecture, as an autonomous discipline, must do a radical rethinking of its theoretical status. My recent project and my research group have made was an opportunity to reflect on which role can still have today an architect who is called to respond effectively and clearly to a concrete problem: to design a new school in a suburban area of the city of Palermo, with the aim of building not only spaces for learning but also a specific place like that could become a new urban centrality. What values can still be expressed through the use of clear forms, precise in their being a measure of a territory, abstract in their being clearly recognizable to produce new spaces able to define adequate places for everyday life? From what principles can the thinking hand of the architect be driven, always looking for an order able to respond both to the intrinsic equilibrium of the project and to the right urban and territorial scale?